Reapportionment; reallocation of populations, population data, civil commitment facilities.

This legislation changes how Virginia counts incarcerated individuals for the purpose of drawing electoral districts. Currently, people in state-run civil commitment facilities for sexually violent predators are sometimes counted as residents of the jurisdiction where the facility is located. This bill requires that these individuals be reallocated back to their last known primary residence before commitment for census and redistricting purposes. By preventing these facilities from artificially inflating local population counts, the policy aims to ensure more accurate representation across the Commonwealth. For Arlington residents, this ensures that legislative district boundaries are drawn based on where citizens actually live, rather than where the state maintains secure treatment facilities, leading to fairer political representation and more consistent district population numbers across Northern Virginia.